The Irish standard., 1887-04-02
SAYINGS AND DoINGs.

A DOG case in Boone County, Ia, is now
on it's sixth trial, having had two before
Justice and three before the district court.
The dog is dead.
A NEW pocket camera has been invented.
1t is enclosed in an ordinary silver watch
case, and is said to do very good work by
the dry-plate process.
CASEY COUNTY, KY, is said to be over
run by rails. A sort of cat cholera has
killed off all the cats. and the rats are hav-
ing every thing their own way. Cats are
away up above par there.
A VESSEL with cargo of fOrty-four os-
triches arrived recently at Galveston,
Tex. This is the second cargo within
twelve months. The birds are for ostrich
farms in California, and came from Natal.
A FoURTEEN-YEAR-o OLD scholar in the dis
trict school near Vandalia, ILL.,, took q
swallow from his ink bottle the other day
to see how it would taste. The next morn
ing he died. His physician said that the
ink contained deadly poison.
Coon HUNTING seems to be a lucrative
sport in some parts of Missouri. Two
hunters recently chopped down an evident
'scoon tree" near Trenton and got three
coons, 400 pounds of honey and an oyster
can IN which were $3.50 in gold.
A DAKOTA woman in the upper James
valley decided that she wanted fur cloak.
She began trapping mink and tanning the
skins. These she sent to st. Paul, where
they have just been made into beautiful
cloak for which she was offered Sl25.
A YOUNG man of Kansas City was play
ing guitar the other evening and a large
rat came into the room, seemingly we'll
pleased with the music. 1t slowly ap-
preached tae player until very near, and
then after listening for some time slowly
wentaway.
A LETTER from the Iniian Territory has
been received at the Interior Department
at Washington addressed to ''Hon. Robert
McClelland, Secretary of the Interior De-
tary under President Pierce, from 1852 to
1857.
JOHN ALBERrsoN, who recently died in
Norton. N. S., at the age of los years, was
one OF the oldest living British soldiers and
probably the only survivor Of the battle OF
the Nile, which was fought ninety years
ago. He also fought at Trafalgar and
Waterloo.
A TRAMP who was stealing ride
through Indiana on a freight train tue
OLQGr n1SQL Was ul5COV0fcu ny OIAhCAAcAAA
and pursued. He jumped from the train
just as it was crossing a canal bridge,
landed in the water forty feet below, and
then waded ashore unhurt.
ELIZABETH SINGLETON, a colored woman
of st. Louis, went to the morgue to
identify the dead body of her stepsister.
While there she looked around, and ex-
claimed as she saw another dead body:
'*Why, der is old Cap, who used to be my
husband" She was right.
Some time ago Wheaton Huntley moved
from the East with three marriageabie
daughters and located by Henry Burchard
in Mercer County, D. I. Burchard had
three manageable boys, and the natural
result followed. The three brothers have
married the three sisters.
JULIUS COIN, of Atlanta, thinks that he
has the oldest flute in America. 1t is an
ebony, eight-keyed German flute, and
bears a silver plate with the words;
'.Julius Cohn. Dresden, 173S." This was
the present owners great-great-great
grandfather. There are still good tones in
the old finite